Kubotas at play. Er, I mean work!

Nice tractor Dave! Did you happen to get it from the Kubota dealer in Walpole, NH? My wife and I sometimes head to that area to run some errands. I’ve gone to that particular dealer just to look at all the cool stuff they have out front.

 

I’ve dealt with Townline for 24 years and have, for the most part, good things to say. Dealing with the sons isn’t quite the same as with their dad, but things change. I buy a few things from Walpole, but not much. I will note that when Deere pulled the rug out from under their local dealership John Deere Pulls Dealership from New Hampshire Company After 84 Years that Pinnacleview stepped up and hired a bunch of them.

 

Another important piece of equipment you will need is something for ballast. That can be a ballast box or heavy attachment for when you are lifting logs with a grapple. It doesn’t take much to lift the rear off the ground. The ballast will also take some of the load bearing off the front axle.

 

That's what I use for ballast . I think mine weights 550. I have some old pieces of 1.5"x12"x18" boiler plate that I'm going to try to figure out how to add (and still be able to remove) that would add another 200lbs +/-.

 

It appears you could hang suitcase weights off the sides of that, but they are spendy. It’s a learning experience, but I’d recommend getting closer to 1k lbs of weight to offset the big logs. It will save you’re tc some unwanted exercise.

 

New tractor picks up a lot more weight than what I'm used to. This was effortless and old one probably wouldn't have done it at all. Green oak and sycamore is heavy stuff.

 

Was running the mini ex out in the woods clearing debris from trails and it died on me while tracking back to the house Friday afternoon. Acted like it was out of fuel, but it was half full. It was just about dark, so I headed back to the house to get a headlamp and fuel filter and walk the 2,500 feet back out to it. Swapped the fuel filter and tried it, it ran for a split second and died. The fuel pump sounded different as well, much louder than normal.

Came back to the house, and called it a day. Got up and headed to the Kubota dealer which is a hour away for a fuel filter and water separator filter. Those two filters came to $115 for the pair, I got a set of spares for the shelf as well. Came home swapped the water separator filter, and it fired for a second, but the battery was about dead. While pulling the battery I noticed it was pizzing fuel from the underside onto the track. Shut the fuel off and found a rubber line to the fuel pump was broken. Looks to have rubbed on a bracket for 700 hours. Pulled it and took the battery back to the house.

Trip to Napa for fuel line while the battery charged. Headed back out to the machine and installed the new fuel line and battery. I will say self priming is awesome! She fired up and tracked back to the house without issues. Figured I walked about 4 miles back and forth to fix it. It couldn’t have happened closer to home.

 

Wow! Nice detective work!

 

Made a chain carrier this morning. 3" schedule 40 fits like a glove. Hard to see in the picture but I basically made a canoe out of the pipe. Left it stick out a little so I have something to grab. Not my idea.

I'll paint it when it warms up some.

 

Still a great idea I got here